Six hundred ER patients under the influence had a mini-intervention with a hospital staff member who asked them why they were having trouble stopping drinking, and encouraged them to set a goal of drinking less, according to this story by...
Pinwheel for Prevention child abuse awareness event, outside the Brown County Courthouse lawn in downtown Green Bay on Friday, April 20, 2012. Photo by Evan Siegle/Press-Gazette Since the Penn State child abuse tragedy last year, the hot lines in New...
We have posted this video on Vimeo under "Adverse Childhood Experiences Study" where you can select "Download" and then right click on the resolution you would like to download and select "save target to" in order to specify where to put the video on...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Jeff Lawshe, Sue Mackey Andrews, Karen White, and Xochitl Salvador. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their pages to read more about...
It's interesting how long it takes for solid research to be integrated into daily life, especially research that produces results that shock us, but have somehow been known all along. The CDC's ACE Study -- which linked childhood...
Jim Sporleder, principal of Lincoln High School THE FIRST TIME THAT principal Jim Sporleder tried the New Approach to Student Discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, he was blown away. Because it worked. In fact, it worked so well that...
Untreated Trauma and Chronic Disease Network - background information for April, 2012 meeting The Interface between Mental Health and Medical Care Background: Vermont’s Blueprint for Health is “a state-led initiative...
Untreated Trauma and Chronic Disease Network Agenda – April 18 th , 1pm -3 pm Meeting objectives: 1) agree on a primary goal for the network 2) agree on some “first...
In the fall of 2011, I founded a state-wide network to bring together those entities working on trauma. I thought I would post the rationale for the network I wrote last fall, and then the agenda for our next meeting, and maybe minutes and such. If...
Bedside manner and medical excellence--not necessarily constant companions--in "Pre-Med's New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science" by Elisabeth Rosenthal in The New York Times: ...
A close family friend of one of the suspects in the Tulsa, OK, shootings in which Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, are being held in the deaths of three African-Americans says it wasn't hate that led England to his actions, but past...
You've probably heard about the research in Pediatrics showing that children born to obese mothers are at higher risk of autism. "The study of more than 1,000 children found that the offspring of obese mothers had a 67 percent higher risk...
In this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Peter Vash , a physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Medicine, described a several-year journey with a morbidly obese patient that ended with...
Walla Walla, WA, recently hosted Dr. Vincent Felitti as keynote speaker to our second annual Violence Prevention Conference March 26-27. It was a whirlwind of events for the community- and Dr. Felitti! In addition to the conference, Dr....
In 2006, 4,569 kids under the age of 18 were hospitalized as a result of child abuse; 300 of those children died. So the U.S. could use more methods to protect children, according to this story by Bonnie Rothman on Time's Healthland . She describes a...